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Maybe Only Babies Fall in Love

from Dear Mum, I'm Sorry by Auntie Establishment

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The only love song on the album, and it's a love song to unrealistic expectations. With social anxiety, it's comforting to be able to retreat into yourself and your imagination. When alone you are relaxed and confident; you know yourself better than anyone. This is a love song to the imagination, the person you conjure up when afraid to go outside. This is unhealthy of course, and by the end of the song I've come to that conclusion.

Maybe this is just what everyone means when they say 'grow up'.

lyrics

I thought I saw you across the pond
hanging the washing out
but I couldn't make you out for the storm
seems I've got something to be sad about
I thought I saw you fall
with an old chipped china cup
stolen your wings from an angel
we've never broken up
but I never knew your shoe size
so how can I be sure
that the pair of flats by the door
are really even yours?
and the scratches down my spine
aren't scars from some playground fight
you said I might be dreaming
I said "honey, I think you might be right"
why can I never see you
with my eyes open?
and why can my friends not meet you?
they don't think I'm coping that well
you're the perfect intervention
for the worst fucking day
you're a sunset at 3pm
on a sunday in may
and maybe only babies ever fall in love
cos every lover that I see
is refusing to grow up

cos you live in a dream
a narcissistic fantasy
and I guess it would seem
that you'll always be a part of me
and isn't that enough
for just another useless fuck?
or maybe this is just
what everyone means when they say
grow up

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from Dear Mum, I'm Sorry, released June 27, 2014

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